A wide range of UK cinema companies and venues – including leading circuits Cineworld, ODEON and Vue as well as many smaller operators - will show their support for National Deaf Awareness Week by increasing their offer of subtitled screenings for deaf or hearing-impaired customers.
‘Cinemas for Ukraine’, a joint initiative between the UK Cinema Association, Event Cinema Association and the digital agency Powster, has been launched this week to help the UK cinema industry raise funds for their counterparts and others affected on the ground by the war in Ukraine.
Award-winning actor, director and writer Kenneth Branagh delivered a barnstorming keynote address on the opening day of this week's 2022 UK Cinema Association conference, brilliantly explaining his affection for the big screen experience and declaring his support for the work of cinemas across the country.
A study released this week by the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has confirmed that there is no significant risk of COVID transmission in the cinema environment.
UPDATED: Latest figures from industry data company Comscore confirm the ongoing recovery of the cinema sector, with UK box office revenues 88 per cent up on the previous year.
The UK Cinema Association has today fully launched Accessible Screenings UK, a website intended to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for audiences looking to find information on accessible screenings at UK cinemas.
With COVID passes now announced as a requirement for cinemas in Wales and Northern Ireland, and likely to be confirmed as such for cinemas in Scotland next week, the UK Cinema Association has today issued a further statement on the use of these measures.
The UK Cinema Association has strongly criticised plans to be announced today which will see cinemas in Wales required to demand COVID passes of audiences from next month, calling these ‘potentially hugely damaging’.
The UK Cinema Association, supported by the Alzheimer’s Society and the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN), have today launched a free awareness video on dementia friendly screenings (DFS) for all cinemas, to accompany written guidance produced in 2016.
The UK Cinema Association has today announced plans for its 2021 conference, the first such event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.